"It is one of the greatest triumphs of modern emotional
engineering that, in spite of the plain facts of the case which could never be
disguised or even materially distorted, the British public, throughout the Blitz
Period (1940 - 1941), remained convinced that the entire responsibility for
their sufferings rested on the German leaders."

[Advance to Barbarism,
F.J.P Veale]

Burning corpses. Appr. 500.000
Germans were murdered
in Dresden in only one night (Feb. 13, 1945)

It may be Inconvenient History but
England rather than Germany initiated the murderous slaughter of bombing
civilians thus bringing about retaliation. Chamberlain conceded that it was
‘Absolutely contrary to International law’.

"It began in 1940 and Churchill
believed it held the secret of victory. He was convinced that raids of
sufficient intensity could destroy Germany’s morale, and so his War Cabinet
planned a campaign that abandoned the accepted practice of attacking the enemy’s
armed forces and, instead made civilians the primary target. Night after
night, RAF bombers in ever increasing numbers struck throughout Germany,
usually at working class housing, because it was more densley packed." – The
Peoples’ War, Angus Calder. London, Jonathan Cape, 1969.

"Hitler only undertook the bombing of
British civilian targets reluctantly three months after the RAF had commenced
bombing German civilian targets. Hitler would have been willing at any time to
stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely anxious to reach with Britain an
agreement confining the action of aircraft to battle zones.

"Retaliation was certain if we carried
the war into Germany. There was a reasonable possibility that our capital and
industrial centres would not have been attacked if we had continued to refrain
from attacking those of Germany. We began to bomb objectives on the German
mainland before the Germans began to bomb objectives on the British mainland.
Because we were doubtful about the psychological effect of propagandist
distortion of the truth that it was we who started the strategic bombing
offensive, we have shrunk from giving our great decision of May,11th, 1940, the
publicity it deserves." - J.M Spaight., CB.,
CBE., Principle Secretary to the Air Ministry, Bombing Vindicated

"The attack on the Ruhr was therefore
an informal invitation to the Luftwaffe to bomb London. The primary purpose of
these raids was to goad the Germans into undertaking reprisal raids of a similar
character on Britain. Such raids would arouse intense indignation in Britain
against Germany and so create a war psychosis without which it would be
impossible to carry on a modern war." - The
Royal Air Force, 1939 - 1945, The Fight at Odds.p.122. Dennis Richards, Her
Majesty's Stationery Office.

THE MOST UNCIVILISED FORM OF WARFARE

The eminent British war historian and
strategist, Captain Sir. Basil Liddell Hart declared that through this strategy victory had been achieved
"through
practising the most uncivilised means of warfare that the world had known since
the Mongol invasions." The Evolution of Warfare. 1946, p.75: "Was
absolutely contrary to international law."

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain:
"The inhabitants of Coventry (Liverpool), for example, continued to imagine
that their sufferings were due to the
innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or
otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case." - F.J.P Veale.Advance to Barbarism, P.169.

THE TERROR TARGETING OF WORKING CLASS
CIVILIANS

"I am in full agreement (of terror
bombing). I am all for the bombing of working class areas in German cities. I am
a Cromwellian - I believe in 'slaying in the name of the Lord!" Sir.
Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air.

WIVES AND CHILDREN TARGETTED

"They (the British Air Chiefs) argued that the
desired result, of reducing German industrial production, would be more readily
achieved if the homes of the workers in the factories were destroyed; if the
workers were kept busy arranging for the burial of their wives and children,
output might reasonably be expected to fall."

It was concentrated on working class
houses because, as Professor Lindemann maintained, "A higher percentage of
bloodshed per ton of explosives dropped could be expected from bombing houses
built close together, rather than by bombing higher class houses surrounded by
gardens." Advance to Barbarism,F.J.P Veale.

SO COWARDLY IT HAD TO BE HIDDEN

"One of the most unhealthy features of
the bombing offensive was that the War Cabinet - and in particular the Secretary
for Air, Archibald Sinclair (now Lord Thurso), felt it necessary to repudiate
publicly the orders which they themselves had given to Bomber Command." R.H.S Crossman, MP. Sunday Telegraph, Oct.1st,1961

PERSPECTIVES

During the war, more bombs by
weight were dropped on the city of Berlin than were released on the whole of
Great Britain during the entire war.

All German towns and cities above
50,000 population were from 50% to 80% destroyed. Dresden, an unprotected city,
was incinerated with an estimated 135,000 civilian inhabitants burned and buried
in the ruins. Hamburg was totally destroyed and 70,000 civilians died in the
most appalling circumstances whilst Cologne was likewise turned into a
moon-scape. As Hamburg burned the winds feeding the three mile high flames
reached twice hurricane speed to exceed 150 miles per hour. Trees three feet in
diameter on the outskirts of the city, were sucked from the ground by the
supernatural forces of these winds and hurled miles into the city-inferno, as
were vehicles, men, women... and children.

Between 1940 and 1945, sixty-one German
cities with a total population of 25 million souls were destroyed of devastated
in a bombing campaign initiated by the British government. Destruction on this
scale had no other purpose than the indiscriminate mass murder of as many German
people as possible quite regardless of their civilian status. It led to
retaliatory bombing resulting in 60,000 British dead and 86,000 injured.

CHILDREN MACHINE-GUNNED

The strafing of columns of refugees by
both American and British fighter planes was par for the course: ".... it is
said that these (zoo) animals and terrified groups of refugees were
machine-gunned as they tried to escape across the Grosser Garten by low-flying
planes and that many bodies riddled by bullets were found later in this park."Der Tod von Dresden, Axel Rodenberger, February, 25th, 1951. In
Dresden, "Even the huddled remnants of a children's' choir were machine-gunned
in a street bordering a park." David Irving, The Destruction of Dresden.
"I think we shall live to rue the day we did this, and that it, (The bombing of
Dresden) will stand for all time as a blot on our escutcheon." Richard
Stokes, M.P. "What we want to do in addition to the horrors of fire is to
bring the masonry crashing down on the Boche, to kill Boche and to terrify
Boche." 'Bomber' Butch Harris, Sunday Times, January, 10th, 1993.

THE FIRESTORM OF HAMBURG

"Its
horror is revealed in the howling and raging of the firestorms, the hellish
noise of exploding bombs and the death cries of martyred human beings as well as
the big silence after the raids. Speech is impotent to portray the measure of
the horror, which shook the people for ten days and nights and the traces of
which were written indelibly on the face of the city and its inhabitants.

No flight of imagination will ever
succeed in measuring and describing the gruesome scenes of horror in the many
buried air shelters. Posterity can only bow its head in honour of the fate of
these innocents, sacrificed by the murderous lust of a sadistic enemy...."The
Police President of Hamburg. ˆ "Three-hundred times as many people died in
Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of
the war. "Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of
nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg."
Martin Caidin, The Night Hamburg Died, Ballantyne Books.

THE CHILDREN

"Of the children these dreadful nights,
what can be said? Their fright became horror and then panic when their tiny
minds became capable of grasping the fact that their parents could no longer
help them in their distress. They lost their reason and an overwhelming terror
took over. Their world had become the shrieking centre of an erupting volcano
from which there could be no physical escape. Nothing that hell offered could be
feared more.

"By the hand of man they became
creatures, human in form but not in mind. Strangled noises hissed from them as
they staggered pitifully through the streets in which tar and asphalt ran as
streams. Some of these tiny creatures ran several hundred feet. Others managed
only twenty, maybe ten feet. Their shoes caught fire and then their feet. The
lower parts of their legs became flickering sticks of flame. Here were Joans of
Arcs.... thousands of them. All who had perished unjustly on the fires of the
Middle Ages were as nothing when compared with what was happening that night.

"The sounds of many were unintelligible
and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by
death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs
until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the
ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them
from their physical misery." Martin Caidin.

DRESDEN

"The long suppressed story of the worst
massacre in the history of the world. The devastation of Dresden in February,
1945, was one of those crimes against humanity whose authors would have been
arraigned at Nuremberg if that court had not been perverted."
Rt. Hon. Richard.H.S Crossman, M.P., Labour Government
Minister

AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW PHOSPHOROUS

"Men, women and children too, ran
hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again,
rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to
the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet
drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until
there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground,
and then no further movement." Martin Caidin, The Night Hamburg Died.
"Phosphorous burns were not infrequent."
U.S Strategic Bombing Survey. "Phosphorous was used because of its demonstrated ability to depress the morale
of the Germans."
Official British source.

"Even the senseless and highly
culture-destroying terror acts, against for example, Lubeck and Dresden, carried
out by the Allied pilots, should have been investigated and brought before a
proper court of justice." Major General H. Bratt, Royal Swedish Army ˆ "A
nation which spreads over another a sheet of inevitably deadly gases or
eradicates entire cities from the earth by the explosion of atomic bombs, does
not have the right to judge anyone for war crimes; it has already committed the
greatest atrocity equal to no other atrocity; it has killed - amidst unspeakable
torments - hundreds of thousands of innocent people." Hon. Lydio Machado
Bandeira de Mello, Professor of Criminal Law; author of more than 40 works on
law/philosophy

"As for crimes against humanity, those
governments which ordered the destruction of German cities, thereby destroying
irreplaceable cultural values and making burning torches out of women and
children, should also have stood before the bar of justice."
(Hon Jaan Lattik. Estonian statesman,
diplomat and historian.)